[Keith Calder 03] • The Hand of Fear

**A web of intrigue, mystery and murder…**

Millionaire Felix Dexon had left his London hotel one morning and never returned. Then his American lawyers had received hand-written written instructions from Dexon to regularly transfer large sums of money abroad.

The letters and cheques which had been presented had been confirmed as genuine by handwriting experts. Nearly all made payable to self, they were accompanied by a note authorising the money to be sent on under registered packet to various hotels. These letters had apparently been posted all over the world.

But when his suspicious niece asked a London newspaper to try and find her uncle, their chief crime reporter uncovered a vast web of intrigue by a criminal mastermind responsible for a series of horrific murders…

Praise for Gerald Verner

**‘A gripping murder mystery’ – Thomas Waugh**

**Gerald Verner** (1897-1980) was the pseudonym of British writer John Robert Stuart Pringle. Born in London, Verner wrote more than 120 novels that have been translated in over 35 languages, and many of his books have been adapted into films, radio serials and stage plays. Verner also wrote forty-four *Sexton Blake* tales.